BREAKTHROUGH: VA Moves to Curb Dog Testing, Cancels Projects

In the face of growing pressure from WCW, Congress, media, veterans, and other taxpayers, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced a new, expanded effort to curb wasteful and cruel taxpayer-funded dog experiments.

The VA reports that it has not approved any new dog experiments since last year, and that it is reviewing all ongoing projects with an eye towards phasing them out. VA also states that it intends to fund the development of alternatives to dog experimentation.

Military Timesquoted Justin Goodman, WCW’s Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy, saying:

“We’re cautiously optimistic that the VA will agree none of these wasteful projects deserve taxpayers’ support, as many veterans and leading veterans’ organizations have already determined and communicated to the VA and Congress.”

Help us cut the purse strings for VA’s dog abuse! Urge Congress to support the bipartisan PUPPERS Act to stop the VA from using your tax dollars to fund “maximum pain” dog experiments.

i am exploited as a human test subject for Pentagon/ NASA/ NIH/ corporate experimentation, R&D without informed consent and have ended up totally debilitated. One family dog was given CANCER (3) times – (3) surgeries and a tumor on his paw for MEDICAL – PHARMACEUTICAL ANIMAL ‘HEALTHCARE’ The entire family is targeted for nonconsensual human experimentation and physically destroyed for CORPORATE PROFIT with Congress doing nothing to stop the slaughter

The alternatives to experimenting on dogs needs to be non-animal experimentation. The sooner the money dries up that is funding these barbaric procedures, and is used instead to further other forms of research, the sooner those avenues will start to see prolific results. It is the same reasoning that scientists used in stem cell research. At first it was claimed that they must use stems cells harvested from aborted fetuses. Now other stems cells are used. If the aborted tissue was off-limits to start with, the other methods would have been discovered and developed sooner.

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